Orecchiette Pasta Alongside Crumbled Meatballs Inwards A Parmesan Lycopersicon Esculentum Sauce

It turns out that Emma loves meat.  She volition gobble downwards her braised beef, shredded chicken or crumbled meatballs fifty-fifty earlier she fifty-fifty goes for the macaroni in addition to cheese!  So, this calendar week I made an extra large (4 pounds!) batch of meatballs to proceed inwards the freezer (here's my recipe & step-by-step guide... it is then much easier to brand meatballs than you lot mightiness think).  Now,  I'll last able to larn i or 2 out of the freezer at a fourth dimension for her lunches in addition to our dinners.

I role pre-cooked meatballs all of the fourth dimension - they move peachy crumbled upward to brand a quick meat sauce for pasta, or on a pizza.  This recipe for calls for pre-cooked meatballs crumbled into the sauce.  It is a peachy choice to the typical browned meat equally the texture in addition to flavour of the meatball is far better.  If you lot proceed them inwards volume quantities inwards the freezer, it tin plow over the sack last a actually quick dinner.

This recipe was influenced yesteryear both the Barefoot Contessa's Weeknight Bolognese in addition to her Orecchiette amongst Sausage in addition to Broccoli Rabe.

Orecchiette Pasta amongst Crumbled Meatballs 
in a Parmesan Tomato Sauce
serves 4

8 meatballs, pre-cooked (about 1 pound)
1 pound of orecchiette
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three tablespoons of olive stone oil
2 cups of mushrooms, sliced
five garlic cloves, minced
1 - 32 oz. tin plow over the sack of whole peeled tomatoes
1/2 loving cup of heavy cream
1 loving cup of pasta H2O (see *note below)
2 cups of spinach, stems removed
1 loving cup of parmesan cheese, grated

Bring a large pot of salted H2O to boil for the pasta.

For the sauce, inwards a saute pan laid upward the mushrooms inwards the olive stone oil for 2-3 minutes over high heat.  Add garlic in addition to laid upward for thirty seconds.  Add the tomatoes, crushing them i at a fourth dimension into the pan along amongst the juice.  Simmer on medium estrus for x minutes.  Crumble inwards the meatballs.

In the meantime, laid upward pasta for iv minutes less than the bundle directions.

Add heavy cream to the tomato plant sauce.

*Ladel 1 loving cup of H2O from the pasta boiling H2O into the tomato plant sauce.  The starch from the pasta H2O volition aid to thicken the sauce.  Add spinach in addition to pasta in addition to laid upward for five minutes.

Remove from estrus in addition to add together parmesan cheese.

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